Abhay Deol Quotes

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

I'm doing what I want to do.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I don't like being told what to do, and I don't need to be told what my record should sound like.

I have to follow my own vision.

I firmly believe in individual liberty more than anything else. And that you have to live the life you want for yourself.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

People have to do what they want to do.

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.